The Artist

Low-tech magic at Top of the Park

Retro is all the rage these days. Quite a few bands now play some sort of Americana and use old-timey instruments. Even literary efforts harken back to old days. Instead of reading an e-book on an e-reader this summer, I'm turning the pages of filmmaker J.J. Abrams' ambitious and artful S, a mystery scrawled in faded "pen" in the margins of a novel fashioned as